Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballincolloo, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincolloo
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44913, -8.52192
- SMR number
- LI040-060----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture, an enclosure (LI040-059----) lies 110m to the NW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Small circular cropmark (Site No. 040240) identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2552) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Faint trace of circular cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 25/03/2017.
See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (BGE 1/50000 2552) and Google Earth orthoimage dated 25/03/2017.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 29 April 2021
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 344/24 on 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.